Chuck Close Quotes

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

Improvement begins with I.

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time, and eating exactly the same food every day. I'd remember my friends' birthdays, I'd learn Photoshop, I wouldn't let my daughter watch TV during breakfast. I'd read Shakespeare.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I have to keep testing myself.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.